Test 7 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Mate, did the first giant really fancy a bit of Ian?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, fancy · To what, where: bit

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 giant	amod
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	xcomp
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 fancy	advmod
8	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 giant	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fancy	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ian	case
12	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate					giant property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fancy	infinitive	Mate not said here	a bit of Ian					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah, he thought it was a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a bird					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he thought it was the lad's noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 noise	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noise	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 lad	case
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the lad's noise					tree rules

Option 4

Aye, he fancied the lad's noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noise	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lad	case
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	he	the lad's noise					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	noise		the lad						nom noise «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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